...preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. *- 21 The like figuro wheret 22 WhoisgoneintoheaveJi,...

...preached to them Jiy his Spirit. And this, as we have said already, was " when the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing." He preached to them while they lived here on the earth, before they were overtaken and destroyed by...

...dead. And when did he preach to them ? When they were disobedient, when once the longsujffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing: Christ preached unto them by his Spirit in that holy patriarch, who was a preacher of righteousness...

...disobedient to whom Christ preached ? It is answered in these words : "When once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was a preparing." In one word they were the Antediluvians. Well, let us ask, 2d. When did Christ go and preach to them...

...this while the ark was a preparing, as appears by I Pet. iii. 20. " When once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was...employed even for one half of that time. Noah must have had a great and constant care upon his mind for these one hundred and twenty years, in superintending...

...preached unto the spirits in prison ; which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing ; wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved water. The like figure whereunto, G5 baptism, doth...

...Testament, as 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21. " Which sometimes were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. The like figure whereunto, even baptism, doth...

...was there, when Ix «et a compass upon the lace of the depth. J'rim. viii. 27. The long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing. 1 Peter. They tell us the profit of reading is singular, in thit it serveth for a preparative unto...

...preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometimes were disohedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved hy water. 21 The like figure whereunto, ecen haptism,...

...preached to the spirits in prison, which sometimes were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing." 1 Pet. iii, 19, 20. Christ, by his spirit in Noah, was the preacher ; so Noah is called "A preacher...